Bournemouth, England
Memento Mori Oddities Shop
A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.
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Bournemouth, England
A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.
Helsinki, Finland
A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.
Rome, Italy
A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Silkeborg, Denmark
Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."
Ljubljana, Slovenia
This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.
Split, Croatia
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
Phoenix, Arizona
In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.
Augsburg, Germany
In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.
Paris, France
Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
Matamata, New Zealand
This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.
Millbrook, Alabama
The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.
Strängnäs, Sweden
This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.
Paris, France
A museum of magic with a Sadist past.
Paris, France
Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Tokyo, Japan
If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.
Uppsala, Sweden
The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
Seattle, Washington
A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Paris, France
A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.